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species

Deinacrida fallai Salmon, 1950

Poor Knights Giant Weta; Poor Knights Weta

Nomenclature (10)

  • Deinacrida fallai Salmon, 1950: 138.

    Holotype; 88527216-8f0f-4edc-9ff9-777ec122137a; deposited at: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - Entomology (MONZ); New Zealand

  • Deinacrida fallai Salmon, 1950 in Richards, 1973
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  • Deinacrida fallai Salmon, 1950 in Gibbs, 2001: 41.
  • Deinacrida fallai Salmon, 1950 in Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2004: 190.

Nomenclature references (10)

  • Gibbs, G.W. (1998) Why are some weta (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae) vulnerable yet others are common? Journal of Insect Conservation, 2(3-4), 161–166. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/g82mwn350n242330/
  • Gibbs, G.W. (2001) Habitats and biogeography of New Zealand's Deinacridine and tusked weta species. In The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies. Wallingford. pp. 35–55. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=CFItJVfOFDAC
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  • Hoekstra, J.M. (1998) Conserving Orthoptera in the wild: lessons from Trimerotropis infantilis (Oedipodinae). Journal of Insect Conservation, 2(3-4), 179–185.
  • Johns, P.M. (1997) The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 125–138. Available at http://wetageta.massey.ac.nz/PDFs/Articles_from_Jo/Johns%201997.pdf
  • McIntyre, M.E. (2001) The ecology of some large weta species in New Zealand. In The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies. Wallingford. 225–242 pp.
  • Ramsay, G.W. (1979) In Annotated bibliography and index to the New Zealand wetas. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington. 1–56 pp.
  • Richards, A.M. (1973) A comparative study of the biology of giant wetas Deinacrida heteracantha and D. fallai (Orthoptera: Henicidae) from New Zealand. New Zealand J. Zool., 169, 195–236.
  • Salmon, J.T. (1950) A revision of the New Zealand wetas - Anostostominae (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Dominion Museum Records in Entomology, 1, 121–177. Available at https://bugz.ento.org.nz/detail/e3878a90-ce05-401a-a30a-d75d1b60d9ad
  • Trewick, S.A. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2004) Phylogenetics of New Zealand's tree, giant and tusked weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae): evidence from mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 13(2), 185–196. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282004%29013%5B0185%3APONZTG%5D2.0.CO%3B2
  • Watt, J.C. (1984) A note on the Poor Knights weta Deinacrida fallai (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). The Weta: News Bulletin of Entomological Society of New Zealand, 7(3), 64.

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